A Super-Easy Sun Hat DIY, Courtesy Of J.Crew

Admit it: You obsessively read J.Crew's "Looks We Love" feature each and every time not only for product eye candy (Those patterned pants! Those candy-colored bags!), but also styling hints on how to get the look. Because J.Crew is awesome, most of the styling suggestions are free or can be done on a budget — and one of our favorites from this batch is a way to take the stuffiness out of a wide-brimmed sun hat.

Not totally into those $4.99 straw hats you find in the drugstore next to the plastic lawn chairs? Make them a whole lot more manageable with J.Crew fashion director and head stylist Gayle's suggestion: "Trim down a wide straw hat for a raw-edged brim that's one of a kind." The end result is something slightly Huckleberry Finn, but in a Jane Birken sort of way (it helps to wear yours with delicate summer dresses instead of — say — tattered overalls). Genius!

If you’re anything like us, you might feel that shopping for a picnic blanket that's as unique as your outfit is not that high of a priority. But consider this: Wouldn’t your sunny-day Instagrams look a lot better against an inspiring (and totally one-of-a-kind) print? Since an outdoor blanket serves as the backdrop read

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My infatuation with covering everything in wallpaper started back in 2006, when I opened an issue of domino featuring then-rising interior designer Nick Olsen. His teeny-tiny New York apartment was the pinnacle of Do-It-Yourself chic, the centerpiece of which was a cheap IKEA coffee table swathed in marbleized wallpaper. read